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Hellwitch - Syzygial Miscreancy,
1990 CD Album Wild Rags Records - WRE/902-2 02. Hellwitch - Final Approach, 2003 CD Compilation Progressive Arts Music - PAM 1017 03. Hellwitch - Omnipotent Convocation, 2009 CD Album Xtreem Music - XM 065 CD Per strong suggestion from Stijnfest616 after the Sadus post, here come the crazy noises from Hellwitch. By crazy I mean intensity of the size and quality of Ripping Corpse at the speed of Cryptic Slaughter. This is the perfect crossover of thrash and death metal with mind blowing, unique riffs and insane vocals. It took me a while to ignore the abominable artwork on the first album and actually listen to the thing (the kind of disc I would just skip at the record store), but once it was done, I was ashamed of myself. This is just too good to be bypassed. Wild Rags knew how to select their artists! Either completely worthless or totally geniuses. And that return album from 2009 is no less amazing, they are still in total command of all their weaponry. The 2003 disc is a compilation featuring the first album and various demos that go back to 1984. Triplazering thrash til the end of everything and beyond! Remove brackets and unzip: [zerwitch] !ZER Hellwitch ZER! |
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I used to see these guys play at house parties in Gainesville, FL back in their demo days, before they moved down to Miami to get serious (and score tons more coke for the singer, Pat). Most of the scene then was punk (this is right as the death metal scene was starting to wake up down in Tampa and Orlando) and so I used to laugh my ass off at these dudes, especially when they played "Nosferatu" and "Torture Chamber". And the time they opened for Agnostic Front seemed like a schizophrenic party with half the room longhairs and the other half skinheads. One of my roommates auditioned to be their bass player but he wasn't fast enough for them.
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Yeah, that artwork and the chrome logo totally betrays their sound. I wouldn't have even bothered to look at the back of the record. But damn, this is pretty cool and unexpected.
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